What part of their actions could possibly have broken the plexiglass? It’s soup. A lack of intent isn’t what made this not an “almost ruin”, it’s that there is no likely outcome where the painting is damaged. You’re acting like they took a risk and luckily nothing bad happened, but it was just never in the cards to begin with.
Stuff like “climate change” or “equity” are such common and broadly used terms they’re going to be all over the place. They’re boiler plate buzzwords.
It’s weird they even think of “climate change” as political at this point. Climate change as a political conflict rather than a simple description of reality seems long out of date.